St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-07
head is no believer In ETHEREAL mildness, either
of temper or of weather.
STRAY suNBEAMS.

HENRY WARD BEECHER would be "A years
old if he lived until the 24th of next June.
He was born at Litchfeld, Conn, III 1918, ant
graduated from Amherst college in his 2ls
year. He went from college to Lane semin
airy, where he studied theology.
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Mr.. BEECHER'S first paStorate was of 9
Presbyterian congregation in Lawrenceburg
Ind, which he took charge of in 1887. Two
years afterwards he accepted n cali to church
in Indianapolis, where he served for eigh,
years. During his passionate in Indianapolis he
contributed to an agricultural journal and his
contributions were afterwards published
under the title Fruits, Flowers and Farm
ing" He was always partial to rural life
and never seemed SO happy as when on his
little farm.
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In lS47 ne took charge of Plymouth church.
then u new Congregational organization in
Brooklyn, which has since become famous
under his administration. His congre cation
to-day is probably the largest in the world
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Mr.. BEECHER always discarded the mere
conventiOnalitieS of the clerical profession.
He is Il natural humorist, and has always
held that humor was entitled to az much
place in the pulpit as argument and exhorta-
ton. His philosophy has been that the devil
was not entitled to all the pleasantres of this
life.
Mr.. BEECHER'S theory was that minister $
congregation should not be confined TO the
people who came to hear him. He regarded
the whole world as his congregation and was
the first preacher to introduce the system OF
sending out weekly sermons 10 be published
in the newspapers. 1t WAS as far back as
1857 that stenographers began to take down
his sermons for publication.
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There is, perhaps, not another man in the
world whose usefulness and influence as a
minister of the gospel would have survived
the disaster of the TILTON scandal. The
tenacity with which the Plymouth congrega-
ton chung TO the cause of their pastor and
the loyalty they manifested in protecting his
reputation from the blight of that unfortu-
nate episode exhibit the great personal power
he eXerted over people
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With the possible exception of DANIEL
WEBSTER this country has never produced a
man who had more brain power than HENRY
WARD BEECHER. His intellectual greatness
made him demi-god in the sight of those
who came in contact with him. And yet as
heflies there in his Brooklyn home on his
feyerish couch. heaving his thick breath and
shaking his palsied head. and we contemplate
his heiplessness, we are forced to eyclaim,
''How utterly nothing ale the great things of
EARTH"
A question of veracity has sprung I'D be-
tween MARCUS MAYER and Miss FORTEsCUE
The young lady says that the statement made
by the well-known manager that he and she
were to be married when the flowers bloom
in the spring is wholly unauthorized. She
says She has not been consulted about it and
she will not submit to being married by
proxy. MARCUS says he is still willing and
there shall be no ground for breach of
promise suit.
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PATTI is making the people of Chicago
green with jealousy by telling them what a
nice city ST. Paul Is and what cultured pop
ulation it has. She says she could tell from
the applause of her st. Paul audience that it
was critically discriminating one and knew
when to catch the fine points of the music
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There is an air of dreary loneliness around
the state house since the legislature ad-
journed. The soul OF eloquence has fled from
its crumbling walls and its echoes no longer
lnger among the broken rafters. 1t is
marvel that the building stood the continuous
strain of a siXty-days' quarrel between PoT-
TER and DONNELLY.
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Slush can be endured in the press. the pull
m nj hp bar
the street. If this thawing process keeps up
a few days longer the city will have to adopt
SHERIDAN's advice to congress and provide
itself with some cavalry of the sea" for the
accommodation of street travel.